Posts Tagged ‘47%’

The REAL "Entitlement" Programs Benefit the Rich
By Mike Kirchubel (about the author)
opednews.com
Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance are not gifts from the wealthy to the workers of America. We pay our own way. The real "entitlement" programs are the ones we workers fund for the benefit of the rich.
Mitt Romney Does Not Have the Right to Dismiss Us
By Moby
Not to mention the roads, clean water, streetlights, police departments, fire
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Oh, my god, Mitt
I'm apparently unfit
To deserve your concern
I 'm on medicare, you see,
And social security
And you may as well learn
I believe the fed
Should help 'til I'm dead
If I can't do it on my own
Government should protect me
Certainly not neglect me
None can make it alone
Not even you, for one
A wealthy man's son
Whose path was paved with green
Don't tell me that you
Had no helping hand or two --
Have the guts to come clean
Yes,I belong
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Romney’s theory of the “taker class,” and why it matters
Posted by Ezra Kline
There will be plenty said about the politics of Romney’s remarks. But I want to take a moment and talk about the larger argument behind them, because this vision of a society divided between “makers” and “takers” is core to the Republican nominee’s policy agenda.
In his comments, Romney says that “these are people who pay no income tax,” but they are people “who are dependent upon government,
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